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Constitutional Provisions on Land and Land Reforms in India

The constitution of India has included the Land reform in State subjects. The Entry 18 of the State List is related to land and rights over the land....

October 11, 2015

Difference between Land Reforms and Agrarian Reforms

Land reforms refers to a wide variety of specific programmes and measures to bring about more effective control and use of land for the benefit of the community...

October 10, 2015

Impact of British Policy on Indian Agriculture and Land

The British Era is also known as a period of commercial revolution in the agricultural sector. Commercialization of agriculture was coincident with Industrial revolution and became prominent around...

October 10, 2015

Mahalwari System

The Zamindari as well as the Ryotwari System could not fulfil the expectations of the policymakers. A third type of system called Mahalwari system was introduced in Agra,...

October 10, 2015

Ryotwari System

Ryotwari System was initially introduced by Shershah Suri. He had surveyed the entire land under cultivation of his territory and fixed per bigha due on the basis of...

October 10, 2015

Use of Mobile Technology in Agriculture in India

Indian Landscape is dominated by small and marginal farmers (80%) and it has been established that small holdings have higher productivity than medium and large farms in India....

October 10, 2015

Application of ICT in Agriculture in India

In the context of agriculture, the potential of information & communication technology (IT) can be studied under broadly two outcomes viz. direct contribution to farm productivity and indirect...

October 10, 2015

Application of Remote Sensing Technologies in India

Remote sensing techniques play an important role in Crop identification; Acreage and production estimation; Disease and stress detection; Soil and water resources etc.  Remote sensing applications have become...

October 10, 2015

Neem Coated Urea

Before we move to the government policy on Neem Coated Urea, we need to understand what is Neem coated Urea and what are its advantages vis-a-vis uncoated urea....

October 10, 2015

New Urea Policy 2015

In May 2015, the Union Cabinet gave its approval to a comprehensive New Urea Policy 2015 for the next four financial years (June 2015 to March 2019). Objectives...

October 10, 2015

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